The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-03-26

"a gfdnu OLA DUCHESS. WHO rclOlceu IN .
pediglcc which antedated the Conqueror
This magnificent old lady observing the
young mans attention to Miss Bernhardt,
asked her, who he was? ooh, madam"
she naiyely replied, "This is my SON"
"Your sonr' she answered, astonshed;
'dd read your card aright--MiSs Sara
Bernhardt. Perfectly correct, madam"
the great actress replied, without tremor.
"rhis is only uHe petit accident d amour"
And this is the person that New York has
subscribed forty thousand dollars to see.
Frou Frou and Camille she knows all about;
the American public will not have TO take
the diluted English article--they can get it |
with Bcrharlt-d Ia mode Frducdjse: and |
'their experience will be improved at the
expense of their morals.
Theodore Thomas has at last got within
the sacred precincts of the Metropolitan
Opera House; and not withstanding the
triumph of the German Opera,
am happy to announce, that the English
Opera is an unqualified success. Die
Walkure" and "Die Meistersnger," are
not good lines on an English bill, and it
was a bold thing for Theodore Thomas TO
pick up the baton which Arton Seidl had
3aid down, but the result has been entirely
satisfactory, and the effect Of the rivalry
has been, that New York has had better
music this wiRter than IL has ever ccjoyed
] before. After all there is something very
humanizing about music and that home
will be always brighter and happier that
has 1t at its best. Some very straight
backed people who look upon this world as
a vale Of tears, are apt to look upon all
amusements as light and frivolous; and yet
they hope for their final reward in place
where their principal business viii be to
play on golden barps and sing for eyer.
| lasting. Perhaps it might be just as well
to do a little of that singing here--think of
it.
We are very much exercised over new
railroad deal by one Sully; which like
Aaron's rod swallowed up all the rest. A
mighty man was jay Gould in Israel-but
Jay Gould pales in the presence of Sully.
Sully was supposed to have effected the
greatest railroad combination ever seen on
the face of the earth: sixteen thousand
miles of railroad was credited to Sully, and
he would have got them too, only for one
slight obstacle, and that was that Sully did
not have the cash. At the present writing
Jay Gould remains on top, but no fellow
can tell where Sully will be in the next ten
days,
1t seems to be difficult job to get jury
to try another of our Doodle aldermen.
Almost every man who is on the panel has
an opinion of his own, or has read the
papers, or has done some disqualifying
ihpg; and the attorney who has so success
fully prosecuted all fine other cases is
knocked out, and retires, so that we almost
begin to doubt if we will be able to get
another conviction.
The beauties of the law were magnifi-
) Gently illustrated along with the blessings
; of free government in the case of a poor
, Swede, who landed here about three months
ago. He had about five hundred dollars,
r and on landing made the acquaintance ofa
countryman, who drugged him and robbed
him, and who was eventually arrested
The thief gave a lawyer the Swede's stoer
money TO defend him-and succeeded ir
getting the trial pat off on some preteXt
and then gave straw bali for his appear
ance. The Swede was placed in the House
Of Detention asa witness, he was kept there
eleven weeks a prisoner, while the man whC
committed the robbery was enjoying the
freedom of the city; and perchancc wa!
, doing an occasional job at robbery just tC
, keep his hand in. The case was called
last Monday, but the thief had skipped tC
p Canada, his bond was found to be worth
less; and after an imprisonment of nearl,
a three months, for the inestimable privileg,
y of being drugged and robbed in our glorious
A country, he was turned adrft in this grea
city without a penny-to die or starve
v Great country, sir; great country. Nothin!
i like freedom; if you don't believe it, com,
4 to New York and try it.
Il We are still in mourning, but it was NJ
e cry of despair from New York and Brook
Z, the great Plymouth pastor. The wall o
II gylet almost sounded like a shout of victor
e and his funeral pageant was like the tri
o umph of a Roman conqueror. Nature
a rarest flowers which he loved in life so wei
k told the passing stranger that Beecher la
2 dead within, and that death had no stin
k for him and-that the grave was swallowe
D. up in victory. Meyer before in this Ian
st was there such an absence of funeral sable
is his neighbors and friends We'd with eac
d other in the most beautiful floral offerings
/ and his church from the top of the orga
Is to the foot of the altar resembled Lowell
t. tropical garden. There was an entire all
d sence of the ordinary depressing surround
al ings that seem TO make death so terrible
ID and while grieved at the parting those VIII
lie knew him and loved him best also knew tn
ID cross was glonfed by the crown. But whe
It the time came TO consign him to the gray
ID all earthly pageantrv was dropped; fe,
D faithful friends attended the last rites: thcr
le was a simple prayer, a last look, sob, an
1t they left him in Gods care there to res
ar till the archansel's trumpet shall summon
g the quick and the dead.
d In my letter of last week l had only spac
a to speak briefly of Mr.. Beecher, and We
a there was another grand figure in that fun
rs eral pageant which deserves somethin
4 more than a passing notice.
IL Among the fifty or sixty millions of on
le people it would be difficult to find anothe
Is like Eunice Beecher. the wife of the glan
ID preacher who has jnst gone to his reward
le Her face, cast in the sternest Puritan moul
he tells of that wonderful strength of characte
N which safely guided her great husban